newsnight was widely praised for its coup with some tweeting this: but others raised objections with mike owens declaring: margaret eales echoed that. and richard spooner pleaded: if one of newsnight‘s aims was to set the news agenda, that was certainly achieved, with the duke of

york remaining in the headlines through the week. this is well corresponded nicholas witchell on monday's news at ten. there is no absolute commitment so far that prince andrew will agree to be questioned by the us authorities. the palace line at the moment is that if a request is received, it will be considered. two nights ago, prince andrew did his best to answer the central allegations with categorical denials of impropriety. but the continued attention paid by bbc news to the subject again irritated some members of the audience. tanya young was unimpressed with the contrast between but coverage and the focus given to one of the particular story. she recorded this video for us. story. she recorded this video for us. i'm angry that the bbc was invited us —— has bombarded us with the prince andrew interview day and night over the weekend. seemingly at the expense of other important news.

i understand that newsnight and bbc have seen this as a newsworthy coup. however, other important things are happening at the same time. my daughter is at university. and i watched with horror the fire at the bolton university students accommodation. why, when grenfell was only two years ago, did the bbc not deem it important to bring anybody to answer the questions as to why this has happened again, and why nothing has been done? we promised you last week that we would be talking today to the head of bbc westminster, katy searle. u nfortu nately westminster, katy searle. unfortunately on tuesday we were told that is no longer apologies.

our apologies for that, and we hope that katy or another senior bbc manager will be coming on to discuss coverage of the general election campaign over the next fortnight. in the meantime, your comments on the coverage have continued to come in with some prompted by the appearance of nigel farage on the question time special on tuesday. you boasted that you had received £2 million in taxpayers money to support you in your role as mep and then into thousand 14, you wrongly did not declare over £200,000 worth of gifts that you had received in your role. now with a background like that... sorry, this is ludicrous. with a background like that, how on earth can you understand for 14 million people in this country who are currently living in poverty? and that poverty is... applause. i'm really sorry, i'm really sorry,... it is not about immigration or the eu. jean thought the leader of the brexit party was untruth —— under fairly treated on the programme,

e—mailing: whether but richard tucker had a rather different response, when we have heard many times before from viewers. now, since 1972 newsround has been informing children about what is going on in the world, it has undergone many changes since then but the principle of providing a mix of serious and entertaining stories to young audiences in a way that does not patronise them has remained since the days of its first presenter. now the latest news on the apollo 17 astronauts and it is

that they are speeding towards the moon at 211,000 miles an hour, 2.5 hours behind schedule. a law comes into force today to protect the world's rarest animals. it is the endangered species act and brings in very strict controls on the trade in rare animals. the famine in the african country of ethiopia is now by far the worst that anyone can remember. 7 million people are hungry. and thousands of men, women and children have died. memories therefore many of us, but in 2012 concerns were raised about the bbc‘s commitment to the programme when, after falling ratings, commitment to the programme when, afterfalling ratings, it was moved off bbc one to be shown only on cbbc. since then there has been a greater emphasis put on its online offering but it has retained two daily broadcast on television. this week though the bbc announced plans, submitted to the regulator 0fcom, to drop the teatime bulletin, leaving only one in the morning. former editors and presenters voiced their

concern about the proposal, as did mark on twitter. tom phillips agreed. and scott brian had this to say. we asked bbc news for someone to discuss those points on the programme this week but were told that as the move was still up for consultation, but would not be possible. but newsround's editor has written a blog on the subject in which he says:

finally, a return to the subject of prince andrew and to a complaint well known by all regular newswatch viewers. here is nicholas witchell again on wednesday's news at ten, reporting on the decision by the duke of york step back from his public duties. what does it mean in practical terms? andrew is not i'm told resigning any of his patronage is, but if charities want to find a new patron, i am told that will be fully understood. he will not be carrying out any public engagement but he will still attend what are called royal family events. such as trooping the colour, or remembrance sunday. he is of course honorary colonel of the grenadier guards. as many have done in similar circumstances before him, tim wondered what the point was of nicholas witchell standing outside buckingham palace at that time of

night. there is no reason to assume that there would be an update at night so why was he there? surely in the state of climate change we should be avoiding report is being sent on location to report on subjects which can easily be adjusted from the studio and save the expense of lighting, sound and camera personnel the expense of lighting, sound and camera personnel standing around for hours on end, often in the dark being photographed in a a—wheel drive, just to have a back run shot to the story being reported on. the point about the environmental cost of sending reporters and camera crews on location was made more starkly the next day when the bbc reported on how coldplay would not be going onto for a year or two because of concerns over the carbon footprint made by their concerts. point was made by the band's footprint made by their concerts. point was made by the hands lead singer chris martin to bbc entertainment correspondent colin patterson in jordan, where entertainment correspondent colin patterson injordan, where they were playing two gigs broadcast live on youtube. the couple requires us again. how difficult is it for

banter of believing in my mental issues to go on world tours at the moment? well, that is a very good question. we're not touring album. we taking time over the next year or two to work out how cannot only hour to be sustainable but how can it be actively beneficial. angie austen was one of a number of viewers who thought they detected a certain irony there, writing: thank you for all of your comments

this week. please do get in touch with your opinions about what you see on bbc tv news, online or bbc social media. you may even get to appear on the programme. you can e—mail us or you can find us on twitter, you can call us and do have a look at our website. but is all from us. we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello there. rain is the main concern over the next 2a hours. there are various met office warnings warning about that persistent rain, but there could be some travel disruption, even possible flooding. it's certainly been wet through the evening and night across the south—west and wales and across northern ireland. that rain's been moving northwards, so the warnings come into force as well through the midlands and then northern england, eventually parts of scotland, too. so given that we've already had well in excess of what we'd normally see through the autumn rain—wise, there is a concern that there

will be some further flooding because we could see another half a month's worth of rain in some parts of england, wales, and later up into scotland as well. it looks pretty wet for northern ireland as well. all this rain is meandering around an area of low pressure sat towards the south—west. so even once the main rain clears, there'll be showers around — some quite hefty ones. may dry up for a time, but we'll have a legacy of drizzly and rather cloudy weather, low clouds and some hill fog around as well. you can see the day looks quite wet through the midlands, northern england and through the afternoon as well. that rain's creeping up into eastern parts of scotland. so the north—west, after a chilly start, might see the best of the sunshine. the northern isles as well doing quite well in terms of dry and bright weather on saturday, but the rain then arrives through the evening and overnight across eastern and north—western parts of scotland. elsewhere, well, elsewhere we see a brief ridge of high pressure, so that's a window of drier weather — 12 to 2a hours for most of us — before the next low pressure rolls in by the end of sunday and into monday. so sunday does look like the drier day of the weekend for most of us —

not all of us, but most of us. however, there'll be a lot of grey weather, some morning fog. of course, after all that moisture around, that takes a long time to clear in november because we're lacking strength in the sun, and then it just lifts into low cloud. we've got a much wetter day for the northern isles and then, here comes the rain later on. the winds won't be as strong tomorrow as they will be today, so it'll feel cold today just because of the wind as well as all the cloud. but that's easing tomorrow. but still, it's only 9s to 11s, which is about average for the time of year. sunday night sees the arrival of the next band of rain — turns quite showery. but then tuesday's rain — or monday night and tuesday's rain — looks a little bit more persistent once again, so we're into this, again, unsettled picture. temperatures are up on those of last week. there's just a hint that later in the week, we might again get a respite from the rain and have some drier weather. but for the weekend, yes, rain is definitely the concern. particularly, as we say, in england and wales, and then into parts of scotland. it does look drier for many of us on sunday.

the warnings are on the website.

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